Monday after work, I went up to see Grandma before heading out. We were going to stay with my cousin Ben and his wife, Kristin, and there little girl Inara. It was such a relief knowing we had family in the Iowa City area and since we had to be at the hospital by 8am I decided to call Ben and ask if he'd mind if we stayed at his house the night before. He and Kristin were delighted to have us.
Grandma was looking great! She's such a trooper and I'm so glad she changed her mind about the blood transfusion because I don't know what I'd do with out her right now, my hormones have been crazy and just thinking about her not being with us makes me cry. She's way to healthy to be talking the way she does, but as of today, she's HOME! Yeah...they moved her out of the ICU on Wednesday and Thursday she got to go home. Mom stayed with her last night and I'm sure someone will be with her for a while otherwise, we know Grandma, she'd be back cleaning on her hands and knees or something silly like that.
Since Grandma was looking and feeling great I had a good feeling about all the stuff I'm going through, I didn't have to worry now weather Grandma was going to be around or not. So we headed to Iowa City, Ben and Kristin actually live in North Liberty. We got there around 7:00, Kristin was just getting done feeding Inara and Ben was holding her. Kristin immediately said to Ben, "let Rachael hold her" she is one of the cutest babies I've ever seen. She's so little and I just wanted to wrap her up and take her home with me.
The 5 of us all went to a little pub by there house for dinner, it was delicious. I had a ruben, it was made out of real corn beef and Tom had a Flatbread pizza, both were delicious. We sat outside under an awning it was a perfect night. Inara was the best little girl, she didn't fuss or anything. Here's a little picture of her:
I don't know why it's sideways because I saved it the upright way but I don't know how to rotate it. Oh well, she's cute any way you look at her. LOL
That night after dinner we got to watch her get her bath and Kristin getting her jammies on Inara doing tummy time. She's such a good girl. I got to cuddle with her for a while before going to bed, hopefully she rubbed some baby on me. She went to bed and we stayed up for a while talking to Ben and Kristin, it was so nice to get to hang out with them and get caught up, it seems like forever since we've seen each other. The last time I saw Kristin was at her baby shower. Oh and speaking of that, she was showing me the diapers she uses, they are not using regular diapers, they are using cloth diapers and they are really neat. I was thinking of the big cloth and you use 2 big safety pin to keep it up, but this is really neat and very cost saving, so we might look into this. Tom and I hit the sack about 10:15, Ben had to be at work at 4am so I'm sure he was tired the next day.
We got up around 6:30, showered and got ready, came upstairs and Kristin was just finishing up feeding Inara and I took her and walked her around she was all giggly and everything. We had to be at the hospital at 8:00am so we headed out about 7:15. I couldn't eat or drink after midnight and I'm usually hungry when I wake up and of course, I was hungry.
We got the office about 7:45 and they got us right in, I must have been the only one that day because there was no one else there except me, Tom and the nurses. They first call Tom in, he has to do his business, and of course he wants me to come along, so off I went with him. The nurse who called him in was a man and Tom had to answer a few questions, the first was when was your last ejaculation. LOL he looked at me and I started laughing. We won't go there, after he answered he gave Tom specific instruction on what to do after the fact. He took us into a room and OMG, I about died. It was every man's dream!
Here is a picture of the drawer, on the right hand side was porn magazines, in the middle was a wash cloth and on the left was lubricant. There was also a TV on the stand where he could watch a porno if he'd like. It was so funny. Let's just say it didn't take long! Sorry Linda if you're reading this.
We did as instructed and put the sample in the little door and back to the check in window. From there we walked around the corner and the nurses took us to a room for me to get prepped. They had me take everything off except my bra, I got to keep that on. The first thing the nurse said once I was lying in my bed and she looked at my hands and said "I love your hands" I have great veins in my hands so the anesthetist wsa going to love me! They went over everything that was going to happen and what I need to do after the procedure. Everything went so smoothly and everyone was so nice. I got my IV put in and they wheeled me into the operating room. From there, Tom got to leave and go eat breakfast and wait in the waiting room until the doctor comes and gets him. I don't remember much after entering the operating room, that anesthesia kicked my butt and next thing I know my tongue was numb and I was sleeping. Love that stuff.
I woke up in the room where I started and Tom was by my side. They explained they retrieved 20 eggs and 3 were mature that's all they could tell me. Read my earlier post about my eggs.
They said the first thing I said when I woke up was "I'm hungry" the nurse said "that's my kind of girl" and I was starving. They fed me saltine crackers, it was that or graham crackers. I couldn't get enough of the crackers and as I was lying there thinking of what I wanted to eat all I could think of was a chicken sandwich from Burger King. I can't remember the last time I had a chicken sandwich from BK but that's what I wanted, then. The nurses gave me a couple tylenol with codine and my meds I needed to take for the next 4 days. Once I was able to go to the bathroom, which I had to go immediately once I woke up, but the blood pressure cuff had to do 3 readings before I could stand up, then once that was done, they had to take my blood pressure sitting up and again standing up. Everything was good and I got to go pee. I got dressed, Tom when to pick up the car and the nurse wheeled me down to the parking area.
Off Tom and I went, by this time I'm not feeling very good, I've come to realize its the tylenol with codine that my stomach just doesn't like because the week before all this I took a couple and immediately my stomach started hurting so it must be the codine. I got into the car and I wasn't hungry for BK anymore, actually I wasn't hungry at all, but I know I needed to eat something so we decided on Subway. I got a cold cut and a bag of chips and some water. After 2 bites I thought I was going to throw up. I had taken my pills had a few more bites and off to the bathroom I went. I threw up! I felt a lot better after that but still couldn't eat so I wrapped up my sandwich and brought it along with me. We called the doctor to ask about the pills I threw up and he said it was fine just to take my next dosage at the time they told me to.
I slept most of the way home. I woke up when we were going through Cascade about a 1/2 hour from home. At that point, I was starving, so I had my chips that I got from Subway. We got home and on the couch I went and fell asleep for a few hours. I took a couple more Tylenol's just because I was kind of sore but again my stomach got upset so no more of those! I will have to tell the doctor so maybe they can prescribe me something else, otherwise just get over the counter Tylenol. Although it does make me sleepy, I slept again for another few hours, it felt great.
Oh and I'm back to doing shots, just one though, it's a progesterone shot that I take in my rear. I'm used to the shots now but I'm still sore from them but tolerable.
The rest of week I was back to normal, I was still a little sore but not too bad and they said that would be normal. Yesterday, Thursday, I golfed in a golf outing through McGraw-Hill. We had a blast. I golfed with Ellen Besler and 2 other girls from work. I had to be back by 5 to get my shot. Tom was waiting for me. LOL I did win a twosome from Bunker Hill, so Tom and I will get to get out at least once this year.
We have Micayla's graduation party tomorrow so I'll have lots of pictures I'm sure. And on Sunday we head back to Iowa City for the transfer. I'm not sure how many yet they will transfer, they won't tell us until that day. Not sure if we have a say in this or not but if we do, I don't know what we'll do. I'd say let's go for 2 what the heck!
Say some prayers and I'll keep you all posted!
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